Latest installment in the highly acclaimed soccer series. The game features 100 teams, 21 stadiums, newly modeled player models, and a changed Master League mode. The competition now takes place within 4 regional leagues. Players select the region in which they wish to participate and work their way up through the divisions in an attempt to compete in the Champions League. Additionally, the Master League introduces the ultimate franchise tool, a player "search engine", allowing managers to search through the entire league for players with the specific skills, position, contract terms and salaries they are looking for. Along with its popular cup tournaments, practice mode, friendly matches and a greatly expanded Master League, Winning Eleven 7 also introduces a "Shop" element to the game.
Soccer is the most difficult sport to re-create in video-game form, because it has such a unique rhythm. It's not stop-and-go like American football, it doesn't have a central confrontation like baseball, and it's not relentlessly fast-paced like basketball. It's a free-flowing and organic sport in which ball control is the most important skill, in which a single juke move can blossom into a lengthy offensive thrust, and in which near-misses are as exciting as goals. Winning Eleven 7 captures these aspects of futbol better than any soccer game before it, which makes it the best soccer game I've ever played. (And keep playing, to the point where my editor was ready to kill me if I didn't stop "fact-checking" my review and just turn in the damn thing.) Read More »
As a rule, EA Sports only overhauls one of its franchises when a competitor produces a wildly superior game. The Madden franchise was postponed for a year and rebuilt from scratch when GameDay rocked the PlayStation nation; Triple Play was terminated when SlugFest destroyed it at retail. Read More »
Also known as: World Soccer Winning 11 7 International, World Soccer Winning Eleven 7
Release Region: Japan
Release Date: August 7, 2003
Publisher: Konami
Release Region: Japan
Release Date: August 7, 2003
Publisher: Konami
Release Region: United States
Release Date: February 17, 2004
Publisher: Konami
Also available on: PC
1 DVD
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